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Everyone in Hollywood has a screenplay.

My God, there are so many mediocre screenplays out there.

Writing a screenplay is like writing a big puzzle, and so the hardest part, I think, is getting the story.

There's this inherent screenplay structure that everyone seems to be stuck on, this three-act thing. It doesn't really interest me. To me, it's kind of like saying, 'Well, when you do a painting, you always need to have sky here, the person here and the ground here.' Well, you don't.

There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay.

Generally, screenplays suck.

Really, when I write a book I'm the only one I have to please. That's the beauty of writing a book instead of a screenplay.

Everybody in L.A. has a screenplay. The guy pumping your gas has a screenplay.

If it's an excellent script, I enjoy it tremendously, the acting part of it.

I think I've had pretty good experiences for the most part with the people who have directed my screenplays.